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May 2021
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Episode 26: Welcome to Paradise

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He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line: Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee — was a bustling town in the early winter of 1928.


CW: Discussion of historical slavery and military desertion, human trafficking, assault and robbery.


Written by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro Music: “God’s Dark Heaven” by Those Poor Bastards


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